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Selma Lagerlof Quotes

Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)

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Selma Lagerlof, a Swedish writer, was the first woman Nobel Laureate in Literature.

Selected Selma Lagerlof Quotations

• Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

• It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

• There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

• For what is a man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around a rough log.

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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2004. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.

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